Lieutenant Commander Tessk of the House K’mpaq

Name Tessk Son of Borak of the House K’mpaq Mr.

Position Chief Diplomatic Officer

Second Position First Contact Liaison

Rank Lieutenant Commander


Last Post

Character Information

Gender Male
Homeworld Valor III
Species Gorn
Date Of Birth(DOB) June 20th, 2363; (6-20-2362)
Age 40
Nick Name n/a

Physical Appearance

Height 6’1” (185.42cm)
Weight 217lbs (98.4Kg)
Hair Color n/a
Eye Color compound eyes, silver
Physical Description Tessk is broad, barrel-chested, and has a bit of a gut. Compared to the average Gorn, he has a slightly different skull structure due to a genetic disorder. It gives him the appearance of a "roman nose" and more prominent sinus cavities. He has drab, olive-colored scales which fade to pale green on his belly and the underside of his hands and feet. He has a collared pattern (stripes on his neck) in dusty purple colors. The spikes on his beard and brow are short and trim. The larger keratin spines which run down his back from his head to his lower lumbar area are uniform and blunted. While they can be used as weapons in close combat, they may break easily.
Tessk typically has a hunched posture, as he suffers from minor arthritis. He carries a cane wherever he goes, though he doesn't always need it. When he stands to his full height, it is usually to open a can of whoop-ass. Despite being elderly, he is quite strong and is a practiced Klingon warrior.
Gorn faces are typically very inexpressive due to the fact that they lack the same facial muscles which many mammalian humanoids have. They rely more on sounds to express, and so lack eyebrows and mobile lips. This causes most mammalian humanoids to perceive them as sinisterly stoic. Tessk has learned to approximate some mammalian expressions, like smiling. Without mobile lips, Gorn cannot speak most humanoid languages clearly. They tend to rely heavily on their universal translators in order to communicate with other species. Although Tessk is an accomplished polyglot, when he speaks a language other than Gorn, he has a heavy speech impediment. Though his Gorn accent is very minimal, and he is quite proud of that.

Family

Spouse Sesht, wife
Children Kosst, daughter (alive)
Tassal (deceased)
Nara (deceased)
Oraka (deceased)
Father Tharr (deceased): biological father; Borak, Son of Knoch, of the house of K’mpaq (deceased)
Mother Dask (deceased): biological mother; Nera, wife of Borak, of the house of K’mpaq (deceased)
Brother(s) Thash
Sharr
Sister(s) Kesst
Kesh
Other Family 7 other siblings (deceased)
Hon-tihl son of Siv (deceased): Former Blademaster of the House of K’mpaq
Kobor, son of Moq of the House of K’mpaq: childhood friend and twin of Rashen
Rashan, son of Moq of the House of K’mpaq: childhood friend and twin of Kobor

Personality & Traits

General Overview The core of Tessk’s personality is his empathy. He has always been a very sensitive individual. Though he is the product of two incredibly violent cultures, he believes that compassion is at the foundation of all societies. That being said, Tessk is not necessarily a kind person. He can be brutally violent and downright cruel when he sees fit. Strong self-control, learned from his Klingon Mok’bara teachers, keeps his temper in-check. This capacity for both emotional intelligence and savagery is part of what has allowed him such great success as a diplomat for warlike civilizations.
Tessk’s outgoing nature gives him the ability to quickly make connections with people no matter the circumstance. He takes a vested interest in the lives of the people around him, and he genuinely enjoys mundane conversation. His tendency to immerse himself in a community is another contributor to why he has found such success as a diplomat. But it also often makes him a bit of a gossip. You can’t blame an old Klingon warrior for enjoying a fantastical story or two.
Despite not being particularly book-smart, Tessk thinks very fast on his feet. His martial training drilled the ability to predict an opponent’s movements into his head from a young age. Many years of defusing aggression and suspicion towards him due to his race honed the skill. Combined with the wisdom he has gained over the years, his quick thinking makes him very good at maintaining control during a crisis. Unfortunately, it also makes him reactive. He struggles with a tendency to jump to conclusions before having all the evidence. This impulse is tempered by his empathy, but he does still fall prey to it on occasion.
Perhaps Tessk’s second strongest personality trait is his stubbornness. The Gorn has an iron will. It can be both a great help and hindrance to him. He has incredible drive to achieve any goals he sets for himself. Persistence and grit make him very effective as a diplomat, and obstinance is often a trait valued by the cultures he works with. His stubbornness also means that he can be difficult to sway once he has made up his mind. It has led him to fight with his wife and daughter on occasion, and has also led to him refusing to admit he needs help sometimes.
A bad habit of Tessk’s is his instinctive need to hold onto almost every worldly possession that comes to him. Put simply, he is a pack rat. The loss of his home and parents at such a young age left a scar that lingers even into his old age. He has a seriously difficult time letting physical objects go even after they’ve been worn beyond usefulness. He is very protective of his belongings and space, as well as of the people dear to him. His greatest fear is loss. As he and his wife grow older, he is having to face their mortality, and it terrifies him.
Strengths & Weaknesses Strengths: empathetic, outgoing, quick-witted
Weaknesses: obstinate, possessive, reactive
Ambitions To learn as much about as many other cultures as possible, and to share that knowledge with others.
Hobbies & Interests swordsmanship and Mok’bara, anthropology, philosophy, discourse and storytelling (he loves to yap)

Personal History Tessk was born in 2363 to Tharr and Dask. His mother, Dask, carried a hereditary disease called Tosst’s Syndrome. It is a genetic condition which causes serious anatomical defects in a Gorn’s skull. This is why Tessk has more of a “roman nose” rather than the downward-sloped muzzle more typical of Gorn. Unfortunately, it often leads to miscarriage. Out of the three clutches Tharr and Dask laid together, only 5 children survived. Most of Tessk’s clutch-mates were stillborn because of the Syndrome. By the time he hatched, his older three siblings were adults. Thash homesteaded nearby while Kesst and Sharr had moved to a mining colony together. The settlement Tharr and Dask lived in was small and had a mixed population of mostly Gorn and Klingons. They farmed a medicinal herb which is a vital ingredient in many common drugs. The crop is difficult to grow in non-native soil due to the very specific environmental conditions it requires. Farming it can be extremely lucrative, but it can also be risky.
Pirate raids on the colony were a known concern, but because Valor III was so close to Klingon space, they were relatively rare. When Tessk was only four years old (developmental equivalent of six), one such pirate raid decimated the colony. During the attack, the pirates set fire to the town. Nearly the entire village was razed. Tharr and Dask were among those killed trying to douse the flames. A Klingon vessel patrolling the area chased the raiders off and returned most of the stolen harvest, but the damage was enough to make the upcoming cold season very hard for the farmers. Tessk and his younger sister, Kesh, were very lucky. Their older brother had set up his homestead very far from the colony, and Tessk and Kesh had been safely away visiting him when the attack took place. They hurried back when Thash noticed ash and smoke in the air.
Thash wasn’t able to care for both his orphaned younger siblings. He simply didn’t have the means. It was out of the question for Kesst or Sharr to take them in, since the mining colony was a child-free community, due to how dangerous a place it was to live. Tessk insisted that Kesh be allowed to stay with Thash. If only part of the family could stay together, he wanted to ensure it was his sister and brother. Borak, Son of Knoch, and Nera, of the house of K’mpaq took Tessk in. They were founding members of the colony, and quite elderly, but they were very happy to adopt. Their own son had recently left their home and they had plenty of time to help Tessk adjust. The transition was difficult. With the loss of his family and such a vast difference in cultures, many emotions were bubbling up in the young boy. Tessk was an expressive child and his new guardians had their work cut out for them.
At first they raised him as a ward. They were sure to allow Tessk as much time with Kesh and Thash as possible. He is still close to them to this day. Bor’ak and Nera researched Gorn culture and integrated aspects of it into their own lives. They took great pains to reassure the young Gorn that he was not alone. In time, Tessk grew to love and admire his adoptive parents. Both had been mighty warriors in their younger years. They would spend hours telling Tessk the stories of their House and of the Klingon people, and the young boy listened with avid interest. Tessk soon expressed a desire to learn to fight with a Bat’leth and become a Klingon warrior. Though he was not a violent person in general, he never again wanted to be helpless. One of the many ways his parents’ deaths affected Tessk was a survivor’s guilt which tormented him.
Borak and Nera were partially to blame for this. They believed that the village had been attacked because they had not been prepared to fight. In the years after the raid, they founded and led a small militia dedicated to protecting their settlement. Tessk was heavily involved from the start. He never wanted to allow that sort of violence to befall his home again. Eventually, he requested to join the House of K’mpaq officially. Delighted, Borak and Nera adopted him officially, and Bor’ak began to train him in Mok’bara. Tessk was a fast learner, and dedicated enormous amounts of time to mastering the basics. Once the young Gorn was ready to move on to advanced techniques, Borak realized that he was too old to keep up with his energetic child.
Kemal, Bo’rak and Nera’s older son, was killed in battle with Romulans when Tessk was six. The family uprooted and returned to Qo’noS’ in order to settle his affairs. He had been a member of the KDF, and had been Sogh on a battleship. Kemal had not owned much, and what he had was distributed among those in the House who had known him. Afterwards, Bo’rak and Nera decided to remain on Qo’noS’. They were getting on in years and wanted to be closer to their grandnieces and nephews. They offered Tessk to be allowed to remain behind on Valor III with a caretaker, so that he could remain close to his siblings. The young Gorn seriously considered it, but in the end chose to move with Borak and Nera. On Qo’noS’ he could be apprenticed to the House’s blademaster, Hon’tihl son of Siv. Tessk didn’t care much for the Klingon capital. He preferred the open air and clear landscape of the settlement on Valor III, but he didn’t complain. He visited Kesh and Thash annually, and called them often in the meantime.
Tessk was growing up faster than either Bo’rak or Nera was expecting. Gorn children develop far quicker than Klingon children. Tessk was already nearly fully grown by this time. He required tutors that simply weren’t available on the little backwater colony. Hon’tihl gave him private lessons to help accelerate him to a swordsmanship level appropriate to his size and strength. It was hard work. Tessk trained from early morning into the night most days. He spent rest days aiding his father, who now taught the very young warriors for a living. Tessk liked working with the children, and often spent his free afternoons playing with them since he didn’t have many friends yet.
On Qo’noS’, Tessk encountered quite a lot of discrimination from the klingons. He was looked down on as an outsider and treated with suspicion. The Gorn as a people had only just recently begun integrating into the intragalactic community. Though they are now relatively peaceful, if a little territorial, the species has an extremely violent and cruel history. Some of his peers and even some adults took great pleasure in making the young Gorn’s life as difficult as they could. He was refused service in many establishments when his parents weren’t present. Casual racism drove him out of public spaces, and he was beaten up on multiple occasions. Though Tessk was not proud of his species history, he was proud of their recent efforts. He conducted himself with dignity, for the most part. It made Bo’rak and Nera proud, though Hon’tihl encouraged him to “beat the piss” out of the people who tried to fight him. It only took a few times of Tessk fighting back for the attacks to stop. The discrimination never did. He had to simply learn to live with it.
Tessk trained with two other advanced pupils, Kobor and Rashan. The twin sons of Moq’ were older than him maturity-wise by a few years, but they all got along very well. The three spent the majority of their free time together after meeting. Tessk learned a lot of things from them about young Klingon culture, something his parent’s simply couldn’t teach. He adopted many of their behaviors, including Rashen’s perpetual patience and Kobor’s incredible work ethic. However, the twins joined the Klingon Fleet as soon as Hon’tihl would allow. Tessk was left to complete his training alone. He has kept in contact with the twins into the present. They are still very close friends, despite the separation of space and goals.
Hon’tihl declared Tessk a warrior at the age of ten. He was one of the youngest swordsmen Hon’tihl had ever graduated simply by virtue of how quickly he grew up. For a few months, Tessk became a full-time teacher for the House’s younger warriors. But after some time, Tessk began to feel like he had no purpose. He did not want to join the Klingon Fleet, despite Hon’tihl offering to call in a few favors to get him and the twins assigned to the same ship. With the way the people of Qo’noS’ had treated him, the KDF would be far worse. Tessk didn’t want to go looking for a fight. Instead, he decided to return to the colony. He was extremely grateful to Bor’ak and Nera for everything they had done, but he honestly did not believe there was a future for him within the Klingon Empire. He returned to the colony and Thash and Kesh helped him to settle back in.
In the four years away on Qo’noS’, the colony had grown a great deal. The children Tessk remembered playing with before he’d left were now considered younger than him by a few years. The adults he had been acquainted with were now his peers. Outgrowing his old friends was a very strange feeling. Several new families had moved in from various places across the galaxy, including a family of humans who neighbored him. He made friends with Paul Doyle, the father of the family, who was a Starfleet officer. They became close, writing letters back and forth and visiting when they had the opportunity. Paul’s firecracker excitement about paleo cultures absolutely fascinated Tessk. He began researching and learning about alien cultures, sharing a particular interest in human history with Paul. He only began entertaining the idea of joining Starfleet when Paul offered to sponsor his Academy application, though. The idea of an organization dedicated to peaceful exploration, meeting new peoples and exploring their cultures was very interesting to him.
When Tessk was thirteen, he began to court Sesht. She was a Gorn woman who farmed her family’s land both for income and for fun. Gorn being obligate carnivores, Sesht and her family couldn’t eat most of the things she liked to grow. So excess produce from her gardens fed a small number of their community every year. She had a particular love for Vulcan tubers, which were hardy and delicious, and also had delightful orange flowers. Tessk found her passion for growing things endearing, and would spend time helping her weed and prune. He also deeply loved the service aspect of gardening. It made him feel fulfilled in a way he wasn’t sure he ever had been. They became very close, and married within the year. Though he didn’t forget about his dream of traveling the galaxy and exploring new cultures, he chose to focus on the world that was in front of him.
Tessk and Sesht were very happy together, and they soon decided to begin a family. They consulted with a medical geneticist about Tosst’s Syndrome. They were advised that if they were to try, the potential of having viable eggs was a little greater than 60%. This was enough of a chance for the couple to decide it was worth a try. When they sought out a surrogate, Tessk was delighted to find that his own surrogate, Corra Daphere, was still working. Sesht agreed that it would be nice for their hatchlings and Tessk to share a surrogate. They had their first clutch when Tessk was fifteen. There were four eggs. It was a small clutch, but that was not abnormal for first-time mothers.
Unfortunately, three of the hatchlings suffered from Tosst’s Syndrome. Two of the eggs never hatched. They named these two Tassal and Nara. The one child with the disease that did hatch, died only a few days later. Her name was Oraka. Tessk and Sesht were devastated. Despite being aware that this was the likely result, nothing prepared them to lose their children like this. He blamed himself for the hatchlings’ deaths. The fact that he could never father children of his own without passing on the disease made him so sad that it threw him into a long depressive episode. Sesht did not blame him at all. They considered sperm donation. Tessk still wanted to raise a large family with Sesht if they could, but Sesht was uncomfortable with the idea of raising children who were not Tessk’s genetically.
Despite the crushing grief that the couple were coping with, their surviving daughter grew up happy. They named her Kosst, and raised her with devotion. When she was old enough, Tessk attempted to teach her Mok’bara. Like her father, Kosst was a very gentle soul. She preferred spending her time learning husbandry in the family gardens, and soon lost interest in fighting. She loved growing living things, though for Kosst that love extended to caring for people too. She especially loved cooking for other people. When she graduated from secondary school, she attended a culinary university on Bajor and became a master chef. She has dreams of owning her own restaurant someday, but is content for the moment as a chef for a regionally famous restaurant on Bajor Prime.
When Tessk was 26, he received word from the house of K’mpaq that Bor’ak and Nera had passed. As their only surviving child, he was their heir. He traveled to Qo’noS’ to see to their affairs. They had died of old age within days of one another, peacefully and relatively painlessly. It was not an honorable death, especially for two warriors who had been as great as they. Tessk was greatly affected by their passing. When he returned home, he lived rather limply for a year. He felt as though he’d failed at the one goal he had in life; to raise a family his Klingon parents could be proud of. Though they had assured him that they were very pleased with the path he had chosen, the fact that he could not raise a large family still hung over him like a heavy cloud. Bor’ak and Nera’s line would end with him, since Kosst had decided she did not want children. Tessk never blamed her for this decision. Though he loved Kosst dearly, he sometimes wished he had made the same commitment, knowing the disease he carried.
Sesht remembered how serious the interest he’d had in Starfleet years ago had been. To a certain extent, he was still interested. He often read reports from the Fleet’s Office of First Contact, and papers written by Starfleet researchers. She decided to write to Paul Doyle and find out if it would be possible to get Tessk into Starfleet Academy. She was delighted to find that he was not yet too elderly to join, though he was approaching the maximum age for Gorn candidates. Paul was more than delighted to sponsor his application. When they told him about their plan, Tessk was reluctant. He didn’t want to leave Sesht and Kosst. Though the colony had grown more well-defended since he was a child, there was still the threat of piracy. He was also afraid of the change that joining Starfleet would bring in his relationship with them. After a long talk, however, Sesht and Kosst convinced him that it would be good for him.
Paul Doyle was by now the captain of a small science vessel that ferried archaeological field teams to and from dig sites on various planets, as well as artifacts and replicas. His recommendation was fervent and honest, praising Tessk for his curiosity, passion for cultural understanding, and spirit of service. Tessk studied hard for the exams. He struggled with some of the science subjects, such as chemistry, but excelled at the humanities and practical arts. He was accepted, and the following year he moved to San Francisco, Earth to begin attending Starfleet Academy. Living on earth was a very exciting experience. He took every opportunity to experience every variation of human culture, from every ethnicity he could manage. It was an excellent distraction from the severe homesickness he felt. For the first time since Qo'nos and his parents’ deaths, he was truly separated from his loved ones. Video calls and long letters written home could only do so much to mitigate the feelings. Though the sharpness of it faded over time.
He spent much of his free time reading about human history and sharing what he was learning with other students. He also often talked about Klingon culture to those who wanted to listen, and even began teaching Mok’bara in an extracurricular club with the help of a few of the professors and Klingon cadets. These social interactions were how he discovered that he made many people uneasy, simply by virtue of being Gorn. It was the first time he had experienced xenophobia since Qo'nos. It saddened him, but he understood. He became very good at imitating humanoid expressions, despite lacking many of the necessary facial muscles, and even began approximating Common speech where he could. Some people found this uncanny, others found it helpful and it put them at ease. He became very good at predicting who it would work for. Eventually the motions became second nature, and he began giving toothy, open-mouthed “smiles” instinctively.
Despite the social difficulties, he made two good friends; Alvero Ciro and Robin Edwardson. Alvero was a history enthusiast who was very happy to talk with Tessk about anything and everything. They would often spend hours after classes sitting in a corner of a little cafe discussing earth’s industrial age, which was Alvero’s particular interest. Robin was a classmate of Tessk’s. They attended many of the same classes and often studied together. She was a brilliant tactician and enjoyed dragging Tessk into her mischief. Not that he minded much. He had never had a friend quite like her before. While at the Academy, he regained his joy for learning. Sesht and Kosst were extremely happy that he’d come back to life intellectually, despite it being difficult not having him at home.
With his interest in exploring new cultures and experience with Klingon war tactics, Tessk was quickly sorted into the Diplomacy program. He studied interstellar ethnology and exolinguistics primarily, and is an accomplished polyglot. He is fluent in Gorn, Common, Klingon, Vulcan, and Andorian, and has conversational skills in Cardassian, Bajoran, Dominionese, English, and Ferangi. Though he cannot physically speak the languages due to not having the mouth or throat anatomy needed, he can read, write and understand them. During his final years at the Academy, he began to specialize in First Contact, and he observed the operations which led to Starfleet’s introduction to a people called the Falen. Tessk graduated at the age of 31, summa cum laude, in the class of 2393.
Service Record Tessk was assigned to the Office of First Contact, and began working with the team preparing to reach out to the Tyrideans almost immediately after graduation. These were seafaring peoples due to the fact that the largest landmass on their world was roughly the size of the Indian subcontinent. It was mostly desert, and therefore the population was spread more throughout the numerous archipelagos lining the large oceans. This fragmentary geography made them more peaceful and cooperative, as it would be very expensive to wage naval war on one another over such distances. They developed warp technology much faster than many civilizations due to the need to exploit nearby resources within their system to support their quickly growing population. This made them predisposed to forming alliances with the Federation and Starfleet. Tessk’s role in this mission was little more than a footnote. He served as a back-up language specialist and secretary for the Assistant Chief of Science. The majority of his time was spent observing the meetings between the leaders of the Tyrideans and the diplomats. This is where Tessk first met Ambassador Axel Esai. He served as substitute for her secretary when they contracted a native illness and were placed on medical leave. Tessk made an excellent impression of himself through his attentiveness to the rapidly changing needs of the Ambassador and the Tyridean representatives. After one of the meetings, in which they discussed more in-depth the benefits of the shared technological research within the Federation, Tessk suggested to the Ambassador in private that they let one of the representatives have a joyride in a runabout as a practical example. He had noticed that the data and star maps originally presented had not left quite the desired impression. It was a very minor detail, but Esai was glad that Tessk suggested it. The summit ended with the Tyrideans submitting an application to join the Federation. This introduction to the duties of a Starfleet diplomat was deceptively simple.
The next mission Tessk was assigned to was the ongoing negotiations with the Araa. This was a considerably more volatile civilization who had been complaining about the Algolian colonies lining their space for years. Recently they had begun to allegedly hire third-party mercenaries and pirates to harass the colonies. Going into the situation, the Araa demanded nothing less than the complete removal of the colonies. It took nearly a full year to come to a compromise, but they eventually agreed to a taxation system which would allow the colonies to continue mostly unaffected. The Araa would be the sole recipient of any raw materials and certain other exports produced by the colonies, while the Araa in turn traded with the colonies the equivalent in other goods. The value of the exports was to be evaluated on a yearly basis by a third party, agreed upon by both the Araa and the Algolians. This time Tessk played a more central role. He was sent with a trio of officers to immerse themselves in the Araa culture and economy, helping to understand their anger and ensure that they felt heard. Tessk advocated for them with the Federation diplomats alongside the Araa representatives. He was noted as being particularly good at communicating with Starfleet the particular interests of the Araa. He found out in his time with his host that limestone was a precious religious artifact. He proposed that the minor mining operation which the colony was conducting be regulated in order to preserve the natural limestone caverns which the colony was situated near. This pleased the Araa representatives so much that they were willing to make concessions for the agricultural lands which they had previously demanded be removed entirely.
Ambassador Esai requested Tessk specifically for the first contact summit with the Shrike. This was a developing civilization that Starfleet had been keeping an extremely close eye on, as they had an incredibly nationalistic and warlike culture. Esai was the head ambassador, and recalled how Tessk had told her briefly about the tension between his Gorn heritage and his identity as a Klingon Warrior. After hearing of how his success with the Araa came about, and remembering how well he could adapt to a situation from his brief stint as her secretary, she made him one of the five diplomats on her landing team. Tessk was, quite honestly, terrified. Not only would this be the first time he was taking a lead position in a mission, but the civilization they would be working with was legitimately dangerous. The Starfleet ships were actually fired upon as they arrived in the system, and it took some convincing by the Ambassador to get the Shrike Navy to stand down. No real damage was done. The introductions were off to an excellent start! After several months of fruitless negotiation, the Shrike began to equip their ships with what looked like primitive photon torpedoes.
The intention to destroy the diplomatic convoy and all other Starfleet ships who entered Shrike space was never stated, but their hostility was made clear when the landing runabout carrying Tessk and some of his staff was sabotaged. They were stranded in the capital for about a week while Ambassador Esai attempted to negotiate transport back to the flagship. During this time, though they were not treated poorly, they were treated coldly. Tessk took to practicing his Mok’bara in the early mornings to help manage his stress. On the twelfth day of their marooning, one of the Shrike leaders, an admiral in their navy, witnessed him at practice. He subsequently challenged Tessk to a spar. After Tessk won the first three rounds, and lost the subsequent fourth, the admiral canceled all his meetings for the rest of the day. Tessk realized that he was building some sort of rapport with the admiral through their sparring. It was not unlike the mutual respect he built with Kobor and Rahil while still in school. In turn, this respect turned into conversation during breaks for rest and water. Tessk told the Admiral of how he had been raised Klingon, and had worked to build a life for himself in Starfleet despite the discrimination against him because of his species. The Admiral told Tessk about how he had dreamed of being a captain in the Shrike navy since he was young, and how he missed his ship now that he worked primarily from a desk. Tesk offered him a tour of the flagship, and a chance to see what space looked like from warp speed, once he and his officers were able to return. The Admiral sympathized with him, being trapped on an alien planet indefinitely by forces he had no control over. Two days later, the Starfleet officers were ferried by a military ship back to their flagship. While this event may not have counted for very much in the grand scheme of things, it did help to humanize the Starfleet officers to the Shrike leadership. Ultimately the negotiations were resolved with a treaty clearly delineating the Shrike’s borders and rights to regulated colonization within nearby Federation space, and a minor trade agreement for the import of duranium.
Shortly after the conclusion of the Shrike negotiations, A negotiation with the Medellite government for highly sensitive information concerning a conflict with the Iconians needed a diplomat who was both able to immerse themself in a culture and able to be hard-headed in measure. The Ambassador happened to know a certain Gorn diplomat who seemed to specialize in that sort of negotiation. He was needed to negotiate on behalf of one Medellite faction for the release of the information, as only one faction was in alliance with the Federation. The Medellite are known for their timocratic government who decided honor based upon military accomplishment, very similar to Klingons. While Tessk was not the decorated veteran the Medellite representatives were expecting, he proved himself worthy of their honor. He was put through several weeks’ worth of trials, some of which tested his endurance, some his skill in battle, and others his raw strength. He faltered in some of these simply due to being an older individual. However, the Medellite admired him for his persistence despite his age. Tessk himself does not know what the sensitive information was which he conveyed back to his superior officers. He hopes it was something worthwhile.
After such an intense mission, Tessk requested a commission aboard the USS Halo. It is a frontier ship, which will afford him plenty of excitement while hopefully also allowing him to rest some.

Out Of Character Info

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